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budgie

Glossary term

/ˈbʌd͡ʒi/

Budgerigar. Small psittaciform domestic bird; Arabella Melopsittaca is the principal specimen.

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From the books (1 passage)

…that gentleman espying these two as he alighted on a branch close by, “Foreign guests! Madam is a budgie, if ah be no mistaken; and hurr fair companion … well … ah must confess maseff at a lawss. Ah’d hazarrrd, ’tis a talkin’ species?”

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